PHP: Remove and Prepend zeros in a string

So in a recent project, the hardware being used was sending data always prepended with the zeros. I was using this as a number in my database, so this is what I did for removing the leading zeroes from the string

Adding leading zeroes

Given that the value is in $value, the following code will make the total length of string to be eight, adding the needed leading zeroes accordingly.

To simply print/ echo it:

printf("%08d", $value);

To put it in a variable and use it later:

$formattedValue = sprintf("%08d", $value);
echo $formattedValue;

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